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I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has died",...

Hi All, I wrote the attached recommendation letter and I need someone to review it, since I am italian and I'm not english mother tongue. The letter is preatty long, but I hope it is quite well written. Thank you very much for your help. Best...

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I found the topic, Forbes! I find your sentiment to be an interesting one, even though I do disagree. As you hint at, the question of idenity is very different for Americans than it is for people of the Old World. While the use of those hyphenated terms may make it seem as though citizens are...

All this seems to me an assignment of an introductory linguistics course, such that you can find abundant resources on the web, or perhaps from the library. I personally prefer Radford et al., <Linguistics, an Introduction> (1996ed.). As to Q4, I think what the question asks about is...

From: HOW GRAMMARS OF ENGLISH HAVE MISSED THE BOAT (ref above) Consider the English pronoun pairs, her : she, him : he, me : I, us : we, and them : they. It is easy to show that the uses of these paired forms are not directly related to functional (subject and object) “cases” in the manner of...

Misters Micawber and CalifJim, I use a handy software utility called //www.gurunet.com">GuruNet which in turn uses the electronic version of the American Heritage dictionary. I see some of the same material that you do. For example, for "badly" I see the following: USAGE NOTE Bad is often...

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